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by structural 3y ago
That's actually a neat little analysis platform, thanks! Amusingly I can run my application, if I generate custom formatted .json and write it to a file, I can bulk ingest it... which is pretty much what I do now without the fancy visu
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by structural 3y ago
By comparison, I wanted to use opentelemetry for a series of projects, but could find absolutely no useful documentation on how to do anything else other than "send data from a webapp to a server / other cloud service that some ve
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by structural 3y ago
There's still a decent population of RHEL 5 systems in the wild. Last year I was offered an engagement (turned down for a few reasons) to help a company upgrade several hundred systems from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 and start planning for a fu
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by structural 3y ago
Unfortunately, none of these companies providing 10+ years of maintenance are doing so for most embedded devices. We either need to get SoC vendors to update their kernel baselines regularly This is hard, we've been trying for a decade
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by structural 3y ago
Yes, absolutely. This is the exact conditions of most of our higher-end products (500-1000 units sold of a particular configuration is common). It's funny to get laughed out of the room even asking some chipmakers "can you sell us
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by structural 3y ago
These also exist for removable drives (not really any different price compared to normal drives, in wide use) in the govt/defense market, where using a hardware write switch when moving data between airgapped systems in a controlled wa
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by structural 3y ago
This is incorrect, because you're assuming that all the buyers have to have it, when the chip manufacturer is selling into many industries/markets. Since the specific "IoT device for the USA market" set of buyers is actu
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by structural 3y ago
Many flash chips have write enable pins at the hardware level. So this support really does still exist in theory! However, these pins mostly aren't used for any kind of switch in basically every PCB design I've seen. Either it&#x2
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by structural 3y ago
As someone who designs IoT devices like these for a living, the device manufacturers here are in many cases the smallest companies in the supply chain and have very little ability to influence things upstream of them, especially for speci
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by structural 4y ago
My thoughts are that viewing binary package distribution/archival as really just a distributed build cache is the only real way to go, and that's exactly why pypi and associated tooling has so many flaws.
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by structural 4y ago
There's a couple different ways. 1. Build the artifact that you depend on, publish it on "pypi or something" referenced by both the version of the library and a hash that uniquely identifies the build. This is the approach ta
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by structural 4y ago
Python packaging doesn't have good ways to depend on specific versions of <insert-other-language-here> packages. This isn't specific to C/C++ and is mostly historical: it's designed for an ecosystem of packages whe
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by structural 4y ago
If everyone's not designing new products due to lack of availability of cutting-edge stuff, selling more lower-end products than usual anyways (because buyers are more cost-conscious).... then the organization may need to lay off peopl
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by structural 4y ago
I had the joy of dealing with some endpoint software like this in an organization that had mandated password changes every 30 days. Very predictably, people set recurring "change your password" reminders for the 1st of the month a
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by structural 4y ago
A fee per kilogram placed in orbit, refundable if the entire mass is deorbited as a single object, seems like a reasonable starting point. If that fee is the entire estimated near-term cost to recover the object, it would also create incent
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by structural 4y ago
The title is accurate, though. The use of PCIe is exploding everywhere, but we're putting it in every other interface and the "PCIe expansion card" connector and form factor is seeing relatively less use overall.
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by structural 4y ago
Your article mentions M.2 to PCIe adapters, and having just worked with a few of these in the lab, some extra information for you: 1. The ADT-Link parts that you see on AliExpress are the most common ones; most other parts you see will be r
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by structural 4y ago
They buy their own IP range, establish their own AS, and pay for peering/bandwidth as an independent network and not as a single user/customer on someone else's network. This is fairly straightforward to do, but requires more
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by structural 4y ago
Spam is just the opposite, it is actually a pricing issue and not a service issue. As long as the expected value per message of spam sent is positive, someone in the world will send as many messages as they are able to. You either fix this
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by structural 4y ago
RTL development is a very interesting beast. On one hand, development is challenging, and there's a massive amount of global $$$ in integrated circuits. These guys should be the top paid, cream of the crop, right? However, the tools su
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by structural 4y ago
I've oft wished for a system where FKs could be used to automatically mark rows as invalid instead of deleting them, and you could inspect the nature of the broken reference as a property of the row/object. Then broken references
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by structural 4y ago
You could very likely fund fixing the software of every astronomer on the planet for less than the cost of one outage caused by adding/removing a leap second when you look at Meta + Google + a few telcos.
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by structural 4y ago
For humans, it's no worse than folks today who live on a time zone boundary and cross it often. You might argue that for humans, the local solar time should be computed as a continuous function of longitude, leap seconds can be managed
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by structural 4y ago
This is actually where NASA gets a significant amount of hardware: manufactured parts from intelligence programs that were the rejects from those production lines. Hubble was a prime example of this, but there are many others.
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by structural 4y ago
For many people, going to a store the same day is completely impossible (not having a store within reasonable distance that stocks any similar product). This is not just rural areas, either: even in major cities items can be delivered faste
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by structural 4y ago
It's for the end user who purchases a lot of things which include software components to understand the total set of software they're running and be able to ask questions about licensing, vulnerabilities, and establish policies. A
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by structural 4y ago
And most of them were tuned for profit too, so it's not like this is a new concept. It does feel like a lot of the mobile and F2P monetization folks are the same ones that enjoyed profiting from arcade games and see them as being simil
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by structural 4y ago
These sorts of shenanigans a decade ago certainly influenced the creation of GDPR.
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by structural 4y ago
It's certainly not clickbait. If I wanted to fly to London for a meeting in 6 weeks and then fly home, I can no longer do so via Heathrow. It's not like I can just get an earlier or later flight, travel a day earlier, whatever. It
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by structural 4y ago
It's hard when your customers are requiring you to do mutually exclusive things. First, reduce fuel consumption by significant amounts, which requires changes to aerodynamics or engines (this is just physics). Second, don't make a

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